Dollar Brand
African Sketchbook
Enja Records/Victor (Japan) 1973
SMJ-6023 (LP) w/insert.
sleeve : EX(SOC, light collapse on corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
A landmark 1973 release on Germany’s prestigious Enja label by South African jazz pianist/composer Dollar Brand(later known as Abdullah Ibrahim)—one of his defining works. The album is a completely solo statement, featuring Brand alone on piano and flute throughout. Here, the deeply charged themes that would come to define his music from the 1970s onward emerge in full clarity: longing for his homeland South Africa and the African continent at large, protest against racial oppression, and spiritual messages of love and peace shaped through Islamic devotion. A profoundly personal and politically resonant document from a towering voice of African jazz.
A1: Air
B5: African Sun
African Sketchbook
Enja Records/Victor (Japan) 1973
SMJ-6023 (LP) w/insert.
sleeve : EX(SOC, light collapse on corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
A landmark 1973 release on Germany’s prestigious Enja label by South African jazz pianist/composer Dollar Brand(later known as Abdullah Ibrahim)—one of his defining works. The album is a completely solo statement, featuring Brand alone on piano and flute throughout. Here, the deeply charged themes that would come to define his music from the 1970s onward emerge in full clarity: longing for his homeland South Africa and the African continent at large, protest against racial oppression, and spiritual messages of love and peace shaped through Islamic devotion. A profoundly personal and politically resonant document from a towering voice of African jazz.
A1: Air
B5: African Sun